In our second portfolio spotlight on female founders, we showcase Singaporean recruitment startup TalentTribe founded by Sharon Yeo and Stephenie Pang. These rockstar founders are changing how companies recruit talent.
Read MoreThis International Women’s Day we’re focusing on the startups our awesome female founders are building and their current traction. Starting with Romoni from Bangladesh that delivers solutions to microentrepreneurs and provides beauty services.
Read MoreChalinda Abeykoon joins the team as our Venture Partner. He’s worked in the startup ecosystem since 2010 and is excited to join the team and focus on startups and investors across the region. He joined Lankan Angel Network when they setup a Micro-VC Fund to support early-stage startups and pitched to over 200 LPs, now he’s on the other side of the table.
Read MoreAccelerating Asia is most well-known for our work with startups through our flagship accelerator and venture fund. But not many people know we actually do a whole lot of work with a much wider group of players in the ecosystem. We work closely with governments, development organisations, multinationals and universities on increasing the quality of their engagements with startups – through their own programs, or through some of ours.
Read MoreMeet KaryaKarsa our portfolio company and early stage startup from Indonesia. In 2020m the KaryaKarsa team increased the creator base 16x, user base 20x, and monthly revenue 8x. Here we talk with founders Ario and Aria.
Read MoreMeet Gideon, our Venture Intern. He’s interned at Saison Capital and is a volunteer with Shaper Impact Capital and UNDP Cambodia’s Bluetribe Incubator. Gideon’s looking forward to contributing to the SME and startup space in Singapore as an Enterprise Singapore Scholar after completing my Economics & Management course at Oxford.
Read MoreMeet William our Program & Community Associate. He’s looking forward to meeting different startup founders and teams while building an open and passionate community with them together.
Read MoreAmar joins the team as our Venture Partner. He is an entrepreneur, certified yoga teacher and coach. Driven by a curiosity to unlock potential, he has held senior leadership roles in various tech companies and was previously Head of Enterprise Partnerships at Grab.
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Only 1.05% of startups who apply are accepted to join Accelerating Asia - do you have what it takes? As we gear up for cohort 6 of Accelerating Asia, common questions we get asked are: How to get selected? What do you look for in a startup? Or, I do this, I am at this stage, is my startup eligible?
Read MoreAccelerating Asia’s flagship 100-day award-winning startup accelerator is backed by our early-stage Venture Capital Fund regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Through our Fund, we invest in the high-growth, pre-Series A startups we accelerate from across the region.
Read MoreiFarmer, an agritech platform that connects farmers with investors in Bangladesh, has today announced the closing of a six-figure investment with Accelerating Asia investing an additional amount into the top performer from the accelerator program.
Read MoreIn 2020, Energy Lite joined the Accelerating Asia portfolio and Cohort 3 of our flagship program. Energy Lite closed its investment round after working with the Accelerating Asia team on capital raising strategies and execution. The startup is a solar virtual project development platform that transforms buildings into virtual power plants.
Read MoreJagofon is an early-stage startup that was incorporated in July 2020, they’re now at the market validation stage with early customers and partnerships in place. Here, we talk with Co-Founder Stephane about Jagofon and what’s next. Jagofon was part of our first Amplify cohort, Amplify is a 6 module program that delivers a how-to guide to raising outside capital and 10x’ing your startup growth,
Read MoreParkingKoi™ was part of our first Amplify cohort, Amplify is a 6 module program that delivers a how-to guide to raising outside capital and 10x’ing your startup growth. Started in 2018, ParkingKoi™ is transforming how people find parking spaces in Bangladesh with plans to expand to Pakistan and Nepal. Here we talk to Founder Rafat Rahman about their startup.
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You’ve got your pitch down to an art, not to mention your professionally designed deck. Your metrics are growing nicely through organic growth. VCs are taking second and third meetings. But recently, after sending through your cap table interest is dying out. What’s going on?
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